userfriendlyscience-package: Userfriendlyscience (UFS)

Description

This package contains a number of functions that serve
two goals. First, to make R more accessible to people migrating
from SPSS by adding a number of functions that behave roughly like
their SPSS equivalents (also see http://rosettastats.com). Second,
to make a number of slightly more advanced functions more user
friendly to relatively novice users. The package also conveniently
houses a number of additional functions that are intended to
increase the quality of methodology and statistics in psychology,
not by offering technical solutions, but by shifting perspectives,
for example towards reasoning based on sampling distributions as
opposed to on point estimates.

Details

Package:

userfriendlyscience

Type:

Package

Version:

0.7-1

Date:

2018-05-01

License:

GPL (>= 3)

Userfriendlyscience (UFS) contains a number of functions that serve two goals. First, to make R more accessible to people migrating from SPSS by adding a number of functions that behave roughly like their SPSS equivalents (also see http://rosettastats.com for a tool that helps with this). Second, to make a number of slightly more advanced functions more user friendly to relatively novice users. The package also conveniently houses a number of additional functions that are intended to increase the quality of methodology and statistics in psychology, not by offering technical solutions, but by shifting perspectives, for example towards reasoning based on sampling distributions as opposed to on point estimates.

The package imports functions from many other packages, which is in line with its function as a 'wrapper package': UFS aims to make many existing functions easier for users coming from SPSS, so sometimes a function is added when it saves the user just some data preparing.

A number of functions in this package use code fragments that were used without explicit communicating with the author (because I've been unable to find contact details of the authors, or because I haven't gotten around to contacting them yet). The authors of these fragments are John Fox (car code in ggqq), Floo0 (ggqq), Jason Aizkalns (ggBoxplot), Luke Tierney (in pwr.cohensdCI, its alias pwr.confIntd, and cohensdCI).

In addition, the function escapeRegEx from package Hmisc is included and used internally to avoid importing that entire package just for that function. This function was written by Charles Dupont (Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University). The help page was also taken from that package. The ad.test function from package nortest was included for the same reason; this was written by Juergen Gross. These functions are not exported.